Constant evolution and innovation is the name of the game in any industry. The medical and pharmaceutical industry is not far behind when it comes to experiencing innovative breakthroughs. As new and more advanced medical technologies are discovered, it paves the way for a better and more cost-effective healthcare. When these revolutionary techniques hit the market, and ultimately reach the end users, it has the potential to cure many serious ailments and debilitating life-threatening diseases.

These revolutionary innovations are being made possible not just by global medical and pharmaceutical giants, but also by a host of small scale crowd-funded start-ups. Each of these companies are vying to make a lasting impression in the market with their breakthrough products. These advanced products and technology are futuristic in their vision, and are slated to take the medical world by storm.

We dug up the Internet to find the 15 most awe-inspiring innovations, among a host of other innovations, which are making all the right waves in the medical world. Here is a round-up of the 15 stellar medical innovations you need to keep an eye out for.

Airing

This is the world’s first maskless, cordless, and hoseless micro-CPAP device. People suffering from sleep apnea usually hesitate to wear their CPAP masks, and who can blame them given all those hoses and the discomfort of having a mask over their face while sleeping. Airing intends to change that with their revolutionary design. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is typically caused by a blockage of the airway when the soft tissue in the rear of the throat collapses during sleep. If left untreated, it can lead to a host of other serious health problems like high BP, cardiovascular disease, memory impairment, and weight gain. Airing aims to get its device off the drawing board and into the hands of those who need it the most in an attempt to liberate sleep apnea sufferers everywhere.

USP: It liberates sleep apnea sufferers from the cumbersome masks, is recyclable, and staves off many health problems as you enjoy a good night’s sleep.

A majority of people suffer from poor eating habits that they have picked up since their childhood. These habits are largely responsible for the myriads of health and weight problems. BitBite helps people turn their life around by helping them eat healthier and lose weight. BitBite monitors the eating patterns by analysing the chewing sounds via microphones available in off-the-shelf headset devices. Analysis of this data helps BitBite to know when, where, what, and how the user is consuming their food, and sends real-time dietary advice on how to eat healthy. With a potential to replace the various dieting plans people follow, and give lasting improvements, the main aim of this technology is to help people enjoy a healthier lifestyle.

USP: What makes it unique is that it focuses on the “how” as opposed to just the “what” of healthy eating.

According to the American Academy of Pain Medicine website, one in three Americans suffer from chronic pain, which is defined as pain lasting more than three months, and has the potential to interfere with your daily activities, impact your mood, and prevent you from sleeping soundly. Quell was developed by a group of scientists and technologists as an innovative wearable therapy solutions for people suffering from such chronic pain and even sleep disorders. The Quell App for iOS and Android further enhances patients’ experience by enabling them to customise their therapy, adjust the intensity of therapy, track and review detailed insights about pain and sleep activity. Living with chronic pain can be devastating, and this innovative product gives you the power to manage your pain successfully.

USP: Helps manage chronic pain from a host of conditions including nerve, arthritis, joint, leg and foot, lower back, and other widespread pain. Enables you to reclaim every aspect of your life that chronic pain has claimed from you.

Expanding on the wearable technology, this is a revolutionary new fitness band that tracks your calorie intake. Managing your body weight is all about keeping track of calories in versus calories out. How much energy does your body need on a daily basis, or how much calories did you absorb from consuming that sandwich? This wearable technology will measure all that for you perfectly unlike food labels, apps, and other calorie counting resources that rely on averages or estimates. Apart from calories, it also tracks how much water you drink every day, and encourages you to consume more water when your water level is low. Even your quality of sleep, heart rate, and stress levels are monitored to help you find a healthy balance.

Equipped with EEG brain sensing functionality and integrated health tracking sensors, this is iBand+, which monitors your sleep quality and gives feedback on improvement. The headband is made of high quality soft and breathable fabric, has a low power Bluetooth 4.0 module that wirelessly syncs with your smartphone, and 4 LEDs placed at interpupillary distances that optimally cover almost all face sizes. It calms your mind and helps you sleep naturally, and wakes you up with stimulated natural sunlight and sounds at the most optimum period of sleep cycle so that you wake up fresh every time. It also tracks body movement, heart rate, and body temperature which can indicate potential sleep problems or other illnesses.

USP: It understands the significance of dreams and sleep for optimal health and happiness, hence, induces lucid dreams, along with intelligently monitoring and improving your sleep cycles.

Laser hair growth treatment, also known as laser phototherapy, is the most powerful and effective treatment for hair loss. And, thanks to Theradome, this treatment is exploding on the market. With Theradome laser helmet, you get the scientific brilliance of decades of laser hair growth technology research conducted by experts. Once solely available through medical clinics, you can now enjoy the benefits of this breakthrough technology from the comfort and privacy of your own home. Dealing with hair loss can be frustrating and hair transplants, although effective, can severely impact your finances. Designed to fit your budget, this simple device, which has fused prodigious science, technology, and medicine, harnesses the power of laser light with the click of a button; thus, accomplishing a scientific feat that is leading a worldwide revolution in the hair restoration industry.

USP: Reverse the process of hair loss, enjoy thicker, more luxurious hair, and experience new hair growth by just wearing the helmet twice a week for 20 minutes. Designed to simplify your life, suit your budget, and enhance your confidence, it is the ultimate therapy delivered in minimal time.

MedaCube, the only clinically proven solution to medication non-adherence, is designed for people who have a hard time remembering to take their medications. It reminds them to take their medications, automatically dispenses a 90-day supply of up to 16 different medications, and also sends messages to family and caregivers if they miss a dose. It is as easy to use as touching the screen and popping your pills with no pre-sorting of pills required. It is equipped with a built-in barcode scanner for fast, error-proof loading, flexible dosing, safety features, and data storage. A clinical study conducted by St. John Fisher College showed MedaCube improving medication adherence in a group of patients from an average of 48% to an amazing 97%. With this device, not only you but also your caregivers and loved ones can enjoy peace of mind knowing that you are well taken care of.

USP: MedaCube is the only clinically proven solution to non-adherence of important medications, thus, empowering its users with greater independence and self-reliance. With flexible dosing, exceptional safety features, and timely notifications through text, email or phone, this device is a life saver.

Originally invented at Drexel University in Philadelphia, iBreastExam or IBE is a game changing technological breakthrough for countries and regions with rising incidences of breast cancer. In these countries, most cases are presented in the last stages as there is limited or sometimes no access for early detection. This device harnesses the power of innovative sensor technology, software computing, and mobile revolution. Thanks to iBE’s sensor technology, it can accurately assess and identify tissue elasticity differences between hard and stiff breast cancer tumours versus normal, benign breast tissue. This enables a doctor or any health worker to offer objective and effective breast examinations, with ease and comfort. It provides bilateral breast exam within 5 minutes, accuracy to detect clinically relevant breast lesions higher than 85%, is usable by any health worker or doctor, and contains no pain and radiation.

USP: Making early detection possible by providing quick, painless, and easy breast exams for all women. Revolutionizing how breast cancer is detected by making it affordable and accessible to all.

This revolutionary product is a low-cost, highly functional digital stethoscope, that improves the quality of diagnosis, reduces the time needed to measure cardiovascular parameters, among many other possible applications. The in-built amplification and the ability to control volume on the device allows the user to clearly hear heart, lung, and other body sounds. A noise cancelling analog circuit removes unwanted sounds that may interfere with auscultation allowing the listener to only hear relevant frequency ranges. With a POGO charging port and Lithium Ion batteries, the Taal can be used and charged anywhere. The compactness of its design ensures that it is small and convenient enough to fit into a pocket, and there are no cumbersome rubber tubes that are inconvenient for travel or carrying it around.

USP: Provides an advanced, affordable, and customizable device for the developing nations and their healthcare professionals. It is rightly known as a smart device for the healthier human.

The Hexoskin Smart Shirts are a comfortable new way of monitoring precise cardiac, respiratory, sleep, and activity data, and keeping in line with Hexoskin’s mission to record and organise personal health information to make it accessible and useful. The company’s co-founders realised that body worn sensors could capture precise biometric data inside comfortable, smart clothing. As a pioneer in smart clothing and advanced body-worn sensing technologies, their 100% washable smart clothing captures body metrics including heart rate and variability, breathing rate and volume, sleep, and activity. The Hexoskin shirts offer an easy and more natural way of regularly capturing precise data during daily activities. Some of its amazing features include 14+ hours of battery life, 600+ hours of standalone recording, data validated by independent research labs, Bluetooth connectivity with iPhone, iPad, and Android, and is safe for any kind of activity.

USP: It is the most advanced biometric shirt on the market, and measures more body metrics than any other wearable technology product, with greater precision. It has, therefore, been chosen by 4 space agencies, 3 military organisations, and professional sports teams to monitor astronauts, elite soldiers, and athletes.

Tellspec is a data company that is building trust in food and drinks across the complete food supply chain. Their cloud based systems can build upon the existing large collection of food data and scans to support vast data gathering on the quality and authenticity of the food scanned from all points in the food supply chain. Their patented AI-based real-time cloud analysis helps detect food fraud and contamination, thereby, helping consumers and authorities to prevent the onset of health issues related to food. Spectrometer, the handheld scanner, uses the internal light source to focus a beam of light through the front window into the food. The light reflected from the sample is then collected through the same window, is dispersed onto a micro-mirror device, and measured by an optimised detection system. The digitised spectrum of food is transmitted wirelessly from the scanner to the Tellspec analysis engine in the cloud. Their algorithm’s analyse the spectrum for information about the food, and send the results back to your phone.

DuoFertility is the only fertility wearable, with a sensor and app tracking, predicting your ovulation cycles, and experts helping you make sense of your data and support you through your fertility journey with personalised services. The fertility team work together with the app to learn what makes your ovulation cycle unique and gives you the best chance to conceive. Your data is fed into the app and analysed using the algorithms, where each month they gain a better understanding of the cycles and compare them to their extensive database to identify your fertile window. By tracking temperature and changes in movement continuously, this app will show your fertile days and let you know 10 days in advance when is the best time for you to try. This data can be taken to your GP or fertility clinic if you should need any help, and you can feel safe in the knowledge that your data will remain entirely secure.

USP: Using advances in scientific practices and technology, it combines the service, sensor, and app to help you maximise your chances of getting pregnant naturally, and takes the guesswork out of the equation.

With Bloomlife you can see each contraction as it occurs, and learn how it corresponds to the sensations you feel. It does the tracking for you with its automatic contraction counts. It calculates the frequency, duration, and time between contractions so you are fully aware of what is going on with your body with just a glance. Bloomlife has undergone extensive clinical validation against hospital based systems and has proven to be accurate, reliable, and safe for expectant mothers. Its impressive functioning is made possible as it listens to your body’s natural bio-electrical signals using a proven technology called electrophysiology that has been used in medicine for over a century.

Though this technologically advanced world has figured out a lot of things like travelling to space and self-driving cars, there are still 15 million pre-term births per year globally. Through this innovative device Bloomlife is committed accelerating the long overdue advancements to improve the health of moms and babies.

USP: Bloomlife is completely passive and does not transmit any energy into the mother’s body, thus, making it safer than ultrasound and Doppler.

With Motiv Ring, you no longer have to choose between form, fit, and function when it comes to wearable technology. Motiv Ring gives you the insight you need to become more active and improve the quality of your sleep. This technology measures active heart rate, calories burned, type of activity, sleep duration, resting heart rate, and steps. For proven benefits like preventing heart disease and stroke, improving cardiovascular health, and getting an overall healthier body and mood, you need to get your heart rate up each week with an active lifestyle and not just empty steps. And, if there is one number that sums up your overall health and fitness, it is your resting heart rate. You can track your progress against your daily goals at just a glance, and Motiv automatically adjusts your daily targets based on your entire week.

USP: Wear it out, get it wet, or keep it on, the Motiv Ring reimagines the wearable technology with its custom curved battery designed to last up to 5 days, flex circuit board, and other new and innovative manufacturing techniques. Meet your goals and have a better understanding of your body and health without sacrificing style and comfort.

With Muzo you can turn any given area into your own personal space as you let it take you on a journey far away from the hardships of your everyday life. Muzo is the first acoustic device that applies the Anit-Vibration Technology which prevents objects from vibrating to minimise any unwanted disturbances nearby. It uses Billionsound Technology to generate dynamic realistic sounds, and these vivid sounds set your desired scene by drowning out intrusive noises. Its personalized Acoustic Sleep Therapy completely drives away insomnia. It will have you snoozing in no time as from the thousands of soothing sounds, it picks out a specific mixing sound. All sound tracks in Sleep mode can slip into your mind unconsciously and help you catch good quality sleep in no time. With Muzo’s Sound Masking ensures that sensitive information is treated in a confidential manner and your privacy is protected by turning on the Secret Mode.

USP: One of its stand-out features is the realistic sound mixing, as it delivers a vivid and realistic sound quality that can turn your imagination to a real environment. Muzo is all you need to escape from the harsh realities of your world and set the desired mood.

Innovation is the only way forward today for industries. The healthcare industry has always been a pioneer in making innovative changes and adapting to new and highly advanced technology. And, these myriads of innovations and inventions could not have come at a better time as the poor lifestyle and diet choices have been taking a brutal toll on people’s health. What was once only available through prescriptions, at hospitals, or medical clinics are now being made accessible to the ones who need it the most, to be used in the comfort and privacy of their homes.

The good news is that such technological advancements will only keep on increasing as more and more companies, large and small, put together their brilliant minds to identify better, more affordable, and easily accessible healthcare solutions and products. Whether you want to know how much damage you have done to your body during a vacation, or want to drown out your worries and snooze cosily with lucid dreams, with these technologically advanced products, now, it is all just a tap away, right under your nose, at your fingertips.